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Management checking log drive on the Boquet River in Essex County

Drive of pulp wood logs on a branch of the Boquet River. Management posing with the “peaveys,” hook tools with sharp pointed end used to roll logs. Circa 1890- 1900. Essex County in NY. H.M MacDougal was donor.

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